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For slackers west of the Appalachians there was some bad news — Twitter went down. An outage unplugged many people beyond the East Coast of the US starting at around 8:30AM ET, with reports from as far north as Toronto and as far south as Arkansas.

Image: [DownDetector.com](https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/)

_DownDetector Twitter outage reports._

Twitter has not updated its status page to note any particular issue, but [DownDetector](https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/) and other social media platforms are hosting the suddenly silenced voices of your favorite Midwestern cities. Since I live in Michigan, I’ve one of them, which didn’t make this any easier to figure out. There don’t appear to be any wider CDN problems or issues with a cloud service like AWS, but remember, the answer is...

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